| Program/legislation |
Date |
Purpose |
| (AAA) |
1933 |
Reduced production of crops, to raise farm price. Declared unconstitutional in 1936. |
| (NRA) |
1933 |
Reduced destructive competition and helped workers by setting minimum wages and maximum weekly hours. Declared unconstition in 1935. |
| (TVA) |
1933 |
Built dams on the Tennessee River to control flooding and generate electricty. |
| (PWA) |
1933 |
Put people to work building roads, buildings, and other public works projects. |
| (FDIC) |
1933 |
Insured individual saving accounts so that people did not lose their money if banks failed or closed their doors. |
| (FERA) |
1933 |
Provided federal funds for state and community relief effort. |
| (CWA) |
1933 |
Provided temporary federal jobs for the unemployed |
| (CCC) |
1933 |
Provided jobs for young single men building forest trails and roads, planting trees to reforest the land and control flooding, building parks. |
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